Thursday, November 5, 2015

In the past, when people thought about the Arctic ocean, they thought of open water with ice and polar bears, and everything was beautiful.

Now people are planning to drill there.

Not only are we depleting the world's oil, we are cracking the very surface of the Earth and the land we live on. Argue that it was already cracked if you like, because that's true (tectonic plates). Does that make it okay? No. I understand that we don't have much choice for energy, but drilling in the Arctic ocean is going too far. We have other areas that have oil and have already mutilated the land. We can't keep draining the oil all over the globe. The oil is there for a reason.

When humans evolved, we adapted to our environments and grew certain organs and other things that we needed. Other animals and plants did the same. Shouldn't that make it obvious that the earth would do the same? The oil is there for a reason, and it isn't because God put it there for man to use. We don't know what yet, but there are some theories.

This would probably be the point that those of you reading this are thinking, "Well she doesn't even know what she's talking about! She doesn't even know why the oil is there. It is probably just left over from much earlier and the planet doesn't need it anymore, like a human's appendix." You could think of it like that, but also keep in mind there isn't a definite reason we need sleep yet. We know what it helps, but we don't know why we do it. Still, if you go without sleep for too long, you'll start getting loopy and start getting headaches and it all goes downhill. It's the same with the earth. The scary part is, everything has already started going downhill. The oil is there for a reason, and we need to keep it there.

Not to mention, with drilling in the Arctic we are risking another oil spill. Sure, the Kulluk rig has good BOP, but there's always a chance it could fail. That's what happened in the Gulf spill in 2010, and even though the well was capped there was still a spill.

Drilling is dangerous for the earth and the life living on Earth. We can't keep taking shots n the dark and hoping to hit what we want. THIS IS A RISK. Drilling may be a solution, but it is not the solution we want.

This source is obviously not the one we should use.

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